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<h2><span class="refentrytitle">Function template skip</span></h2>
<p>boost::xpressive::skip &#8212; Specify which characters to skip when matching a regex. </p>
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<span class="keyword">template</span><span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="keyword">typename</span> Skip<span class="special">&gt;</span> <span class="emphasis"><em><span class="identifier">unspecified</span></em></span> <span class="identifier">skip</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">Skip</span> <span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="special">&amp;</span> skip<span class="special">)</span><span class="special">;</span></pre></div>
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<p><code class="computeroutput">skip()</code> instructs the regex engine to skip certain characters when matching a regex. It is most useful for writing regexes that ignore whitespace. For instance, the following specifies a regex that skips whitespace and punctuation:</p>
<pre class="programlisting"> // A sentence is one or more words separated by whitespace
 // and punctuation.
 sregex word = +alpha;
 sregex sentence = skip(set[_s | punct])( +word );
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<p>The way it works in the above example is to insert <code class="computeroutput">keep(*set[_s | punct])</code> before each primitive within the regex. A "primitive" includes terminals like strings, character sets and nested regexes. A final <code class="computeroutput">*set[_s | punct]</code> is added to the end of the regex. The regex <code class="computeroutput">sentence</code> specified above is equivalent to the following:</p>
<pre class="programlisting"> sregex sentence = +( keep(*set[_s | punct]) &gt;&gt; word )
                        &gt;&gt; *set[_s | punct];
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>Skipping does not affect how nested regexes are handled because they are treated atomically. String literals are also treated atomically; that is, no skipping is done within a string literal. So <code class="computeroutput">skip(_s)("this that")</code> is not the same as <code class="computeroutput">skip(_s)("this" &gt;&gt; as_xpr("that"))</code>. The first will only match when there is only one space between "this" and "that". The second will skip any and all whitespace between "this" and "that".</p></td></tr>
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<td><p>A regex that specifies which characters to skip. </p></td>
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